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...fact is that nobody has an effective anti-missile missile yet, and some U.S. officials doubt that anyone ever will. But the tests go on in hope of a breakthrough, and the U.S. has spent $1.2 billion on Nike-Zeus since 1956. At Kwajalein, a 600-acre coral speck in the Marshalls, the Army three years ago began building a complete, $75 million installation, a cubist's delight of domes and circles, triangles and squares. Inside the geometric shapes are housed four separate radar networks, the guts of the Nike-Zeus system: one detects ICBMs from 1,000 miles...
...whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in a pond; and whenever you're and, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same with knowledge, for whenever you learn something...
...anything but compulsive in their dedication to that American whatever-it-is that so boldly distinguishes us from the other side. Any other group, we mean to say, could quickly and competently--even if quite unconsciously--be drawn into the value system of those people, much as an unthinking speck of muck can be unwittingly scooped into the maw of a Hoover suction machine. But not the YAF: their duty is clear-cut. They must go, in our name, to Helsinki, to watch, observe, calculate, devise, scheme--and perhaps (who can say?) even learn something about the realities of international...
Trapping a neutrino will be no mean trick. For the little particle is so small that it has no mass at all; it carries no electric charge and will be detectable only as a swiftly moving speck of energy. But the new Brookhaven spark chamber, designed by Drs. Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger of Columbia University, has already proved to be remarkably sensitive. The spaces between its plates are filled with neon gas, and when alternate plates are charged with 10,000 volts of electricity, bright streams of sparks streak across the chamber at jagged angles. Those sparks...
Then he pumps up a tent, an umbrella, and a chair. He walks over to his car, pulls out a plug and psssssssss, the car deflates and shrinks until it is a speck on the sand. He pumps up a surfboard. He pumps up fish. He pumps up a girl. He doesn't like her looks, so he tries again. The new broad is smooth, supple, lissome -but there is something wrong. Two quick final puffs and her bikini brassiere is properly filled...